Excerpt from On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs I have had this active interest as a collector for about ten years, but in reality I suppose I began in my cradle. Both of my grand fathers owned large plantations with many slaves, my Grandfather Scarborough in Louisiana and Grandfather Ellison in East Texas, and so my parents grew up amid a wealth of Negro folk-lore and song, which they passed on to us children. And most of my own life has been spent in the South, where I have had opportunity to know colored people as a race and as individuals. How many memories of my childhood and youth are associated with loved black faces! How I enjoyed the songs the Negroes sang, even though I was ignorant of their value! If only as I listened I had but learned them accurately, or. Had begun long ago consciously to collect them and record them, I should be fortunate now. If I might go back to that time and say.

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